Seymour Duncan STL-3 Quarter Pound Tele Pickup - Lead

Buy Seymour because you love tone ! It’s that simple , this made my donner electric twice as punchy and louder… gave a nice balance of roundness and twang to the guitar . I’ve also got one of these in a squire Strat and it’s a real nice sounding guitar… recording with this one is great as it has a better mid focus for a single coil and seems to love fuzz pedals and nasty drives ! You won’t regret the upgrade !

Installed and working perfectly. Definitely has a much more robust sound than the one it replaced! Can't go wrong with Seymour Duncan!

I have the Strat and Tele versions. While the Strat version is a great pickup, the Tele version is exceptional. The reason I say that is it gives you a convincing Tele tone, albeit with more "beef", and a really great rock tone when wound up. Used with a boost into a good tube amp, this pickup can cover country to classic/hard rock (metal is a bit of a stretch but with the right pedal......). I've played "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Man In The Box" on the same axe and it's fantastic. It's not a humbucker so it can be a bit noisy but I think any change to this pickup to quiet it down will remove what makes it so special. As a country pickup it does all the tricks without the "ice-pick to the brain" stun effect that a standard Tele lead pickup can inflict on the listener. As a rock pickup is where it shines. I recently took my vintage 60's Tele out of "gig retirement" because I missed it so much. It's a player not a museum piece. I took out the stock pickups and replaced the neck with a Gibson T-Top PAF and the Duncan QP in the bridge position and it's a perfect match. I can't sing it's praises enough. Along with the JB and The 59, The Quarter Pounder is one of the go-to pickups for every gigging guitar player.**NOTE** I removed the Duncan stamp from the pickup to keep the vintage appearance.

Plenty of other reviews comment on the quality of the pickup, and it does sound good.I'm just docking a few points to note that there is extremely exposed and very fine magnet wire running from the bobbin to the leads – one tiny slip of the screw driver while screwing this in to your guitar and it's easy to sever that tiny wire. I did this, and while it it was 100% my mistake, there simply isn't a good reason to leave that very fine wire that exposed. I think the wire is finer than most pickups due to the number of winds required to get the output this pickup is known for. I got lucky in that I nicked the side of the wire towards the end of the winding, so I removed the black tape (very) carefully, unwound a wrap from the spool, and then delicately desoldered the lead, re-inserted the winding into the solder junction with the lead, soldered things backed and re-wrapped in the tape. I then painted some CA glue over the exposed portion of the wire to hopefully make it a little more durable going forward.4/5 stars is still a good rating, but to get that 5/5 the factory could easily provide a tiny bit of protection to that exposed magnet wire. If I didn't have the know-how and confidence to repair my slip-up I would have had a broken pickup on my hands. Even so much as putting a piece of tape over the exposed magnet wire would prevent a very minor slip from making the pickup unusable.

Put this in the bridge position of my Indonesia made Squier Vintage Modified Telecaster Special. The guitar came with a Duncan Designed TE-101B single-coil bridge pickup and a Duncan Designed JM-101N single-coil in the neck position. I replaced the stock neck pickup with a Duncan SJM-2 Hot Jazzmaster. Replacing the stock bridge pickup was a bit trickier than replacing the neck pickup. The three mounting holes for the Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound for Tele STL-3 Lead (Bridge) Pickup do not line up with the baseplate that comes with the stock pickup. The baseplate is essential to grounding the pickup. Also, the stock pickup was screwed to the baseplate plate with two small screws that insert into two holes in the bottom of the pickup. The STL-3 has only one hole in the center of the bottom of the pickup. To make this change work, I had to enlarge the three holes in the bottom of the STL-3 with a drill to give me enough play to line up with the three holes in the baseplate. Once I had the three mounting screws in place through the pickup and the base plate, I heated the base plate with a 1200 watt hair drier to melt some residual wax left on the stock baseplate. I then use one screw from the stock pickup to screw the baseplate to the new pickup and added some hot glue around the edges. Everything works fine after the modification and the STL-3 sounds great by itself and in tandem with the SJM-2; much better than the stock pickups. My Squier now kicks butt. The product arrived from the seller on the scheduled delivery date via the USPS. If you are handy with guitar mods, this is an excellent way to improve your guitar's sound with a DIY project.

This is an awesome pickup. I put this (and the rhythm counterpart) in my MIM Telecaster to replace the anemic stock pickups.First off, it is LOUD. I A-B'd this with a buddy's SG and was shocked to find that the tele was a lot hotter. You can get pretty dirty tones out of this if that's your style.I like the response you get - this pickup is chunky enough to be incredibly versatile, almost like a humbucker. The highs do not scream at unpleasant levels, but you can still get some major Tele twang out of it.The only thing I have to complain about is the length of the surgical tubing my pickup came packaged with. At least in my case, the tubing was too short and I had to have the pickup so high out of the bridge that it almost scraped the strings. Not good. I'm not sure if this was a one-off, but I'd recommend having some tubing or springs on hand to replace those that come in the box.